Diya Abdo 

Diya Abdo is the Lincoln Financial Professor of English in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Guilford College. Her teaching, research, and scholarship focus on Arab women writers, Arab and Islamic feminisms, and refugee studies. She has also published poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her book American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience was selected as a North Carolina 2024 Reads Book. In 2015, Dr. Abdo founded Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), which advocates for housing refugee families on college and university campus grounds and supporting them in their resettlement. She has been awarded an Emerson Collective Fellowship (2024) and has received the J. M. Kaplan Fund Innovation Prize (2021) for her work building a movement of welcoming campuses. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.